If you're looking for new keto breakfast ideas, look no further. This low-carb cabbage and eggs recipe is easy to whip up and the savory flavors are a refreshing change of pace. Cabbage breakfast with eggs has become one of my favorite morning meals.
Cabbage for breakfast may seem a bit strange to some, but when the veggie is shredded and pan fried with an egg, it becomes the breakfast hash you didn't even know you needed. Cabbage and eggs is an incredibly satisfying combo. Pan fried, braised, or sauteed cabbage is killer by itself, but sometimes things are just better with an egg on top – this is definitely one of them.
You can get creative and use a wide variety of flavors to give this keto breakfast your unique spin. If you have leftover egg roll in a bowl, that would make an excellent base instead of braised cabbage. Get creative!
How to Make
The low carb egg in a nest starts off with shredded or thinly sliced cabbage. Just a teaspoon of ghee or butter in a frying pan is enough to coat the cabbage while it fries. Add a little salt and sauté the cabbage until it begins to brown, which only take a few minutes on medium-high heat.
Once the cabbage has browned to your liking, add the apple cider vinegar, pepper, and mix it all in the pan. Gather the cabbage in little mounds, then using the back of a spoon, make indentations to create space for the egg. Crack an egg into each well in the cabbage mounds, cover pan, and reduce heat to low-medium.
The egg will steam with the pan covered, so keep an eye on it to make sure the egg is cooks to your liking. At about 2 minutes, the white will set, and the yolk will start to firm. If you like runny yolks, check the low carb egg in a nest at about 1.5 minutes. If you enjoy harder yolks, test the egg at about 2.5 minutes.
Now season your new favorite keto breakfast with salt and pepper! Enjoy!
Egg in a Nest
Egg in a nest recipes typically includes a starchy or bready "nest" for the egg. Toad in the hole, for example, is an egg fried in the center of a piece of toast. And we've all seen those carb-loaded hash brown nests.
With only 3.3 net carbs per 100 grams, cabbage makes a perfect low carb nest for the egg to cook.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon ghee
- 4 cups cabbage shredded
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- Pepper to taste
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Melt ghee in a large frying pan that has a fitted lid over medium-high heat.
- Add cabbage and salt. Toss with the melted ghee.
- Continue cooking over medium-high heat until the cabbage browns, about 3-4 minutes.
- Mix in apple cider vinegar and pepper.
- Gather cabbage into two small mounds. Using the back of a spoon, form a well in each mound to create space for the eggs.
- Crack an egg into each indentation in the cabbage.
- Reduce the heat to low-medium and cook until whites of egg firm and yolk reaches desired consistency. Approximately 1.5 minutes for runny yolk, 2 minutes for slightly firm yolk, 2.5 minutes for solid yolk.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
Nutrition
Hi, I'm Tasha–nutritionist, recipe developer, and multi-published author dedicated to helping people thrive and succeed using low carb and keto dietary patterns.
"The low carb egg in a nest starts off with shredded or thinly sliced lettuce."
Lettuce? Typo, I assume. I will come back to rate it after I make it for tomorrow's breakfast.
I think it might need a little more ghee. Other than that we enjoyed it.
The lettuce typo is still there 🙂
Ah! Thank you, just fixed it! 😊